The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
#0The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:23pm
Not quite as bizarre as the Swedish A CHORUS LINE but pretty damn funky:
http://www.arena-theater.de/
A German tour hitting small cities. Michael Grief clearly was not involved. My favorite is the picture of Roger holding what looks like a syringe to me.
#1re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:27pmI like the Angel. Kind of looks like a joke.
jess20882
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/06
#2re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:31pmum...wow...
#3re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:32pm
The Angel kind of looks like Jack Lemon in SOME LIKE IT HOT.
I imagine this is very much what the show is going to look like when it hits the community theatre circuit in another couple of years
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:33pmWhere are we looking?
icantbelive
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/06
#5re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:33pmBesides how bad this looks, the set looks very... intresting and different.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#6re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:35pmYeah.. we're are we looking?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#7re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:41pm
I don't mind the set at all actually...although I think they could have gone farther with it.
Akiva
#8re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:42pmjust hit the "musicals" tab - and you'll see a poster for RENT
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Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#9re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 8:21pmMuch as I dislike this look, it looks like something that might have been produced in 1996 in the basement of a cafe or something...more like "Rent" as a performance piece and not as a musical meant for the the stage. Interesting. At least they've actually re-interpreted the sets and costumes--a lot of international productions seem to do variations on the original, and they just end up looking glossed-up and amateurish (Bolivia, anyone?).
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#10re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:08pm
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#11re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:26amI kind of like the look. As much as I love the original staging and overall design, I think this design could work well. However, I don't really like how they costumed JoAnne, she looks too sloppy to pass for a professional lawyer Harvard grad type.
#12re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:55amLooks cool to me. I would hope no one thinks that it should be designed and staged like the Broadway and National Touring productions--it's not that production of Rent.
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#13re: The Germans strike again: RENT as you've never seen it before!
Posted: 10/10/06 at 11:49amI don't think it looks half bad. It definitely could have been taken further, but it's already better than the dreadful Broadway set.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#15The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/12/06 at 3:41pmSomeone got a glimpse at the cast: http://www.compulsivebowlers.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5127
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Leading Actor Joined: 8/14/05
#16The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:38pmI like the set but I'm not too crazy about the costumes.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#17The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:45pmNot that bizarre. Am I missing something?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#18The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:53pmI personally think it looks like Godspell, only depressing.
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#19The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/12/06 at 4:58pmThere Mark looks really geeky... in a good way
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#20The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/12/06 at 5:52pmTheir Roger kind of looks like Cary Shields.
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#23The actual link to this damn thing!
Posted: 10/15/06 at 7:47pmApparently it really IS Rent like you've never seen it before. Quite WTF: http://www.compulsivebowlers.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5132
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